What does abyss mean?
Definitions for abyss
əˈbɪsabyss
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Princeton's WordNet
abyss, abysmnoun
a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
Wiktionary
abyssnoun
A bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable.
abyssnoun
Hell; the bottomless pit; primeval chaos.
abyssnoun
Infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth.
abyssnoun
The center of an escutcheon.
Etymology: * First attested in the late 14th century.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Abyssnoun
Etymology: abyssus, Lat. Ἄβυσσος, bottomless, Gr.
Who shall tempt with wand’ring feet
The dark, unbottom’d, infinite abyss,
And, through the palpable obscure, find out
This uncouth way. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. ii. l. 405.The yawning earth disclos’d th’ abyss of hell:
The weeping statues did the wars foretell,
And holy sweat from brazen idols fell. John Dryden, Virg. Georg. i.For sepulchres themselves must crumbling fall
In time’s abyss, the common grave of all. John Dryden, Juv. Sat. x.If, discovering how far we have clear and distinct ideas, we confine our thoughts within the contemplation of those things, that are within the reach of our understandings, and launch not out into that abyss of darkness, out of a presumption, that nothing is beyond our comprehension. John Locke.
We are here to consider what is generally understood by the great abyss, in the common explication of the deluge; and ’tis commonly interpreted either to be the sea, or subterraneous waters hid in the bowels of the earth. Thomas Burnet, Theor. Earth.
From that insatiable abyss,
Where flames devour, and serpents hiss,
Promote me to thy seat of bliss. Wentworth Dillon.
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abyss
An abyss is a very deep or seemingly bottomless chasm or cavity. This term is often used to describe a profound depth or vast empty space that is impossible to measure. In a figurative sense, it can also refer to a catastrophic situation or a state of immense or profound distress.
Webster Dictionary
Abyssnoun
a bottomless or unfathomed depth, gulf, or chasm; hence, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit
Abyssnoun
infinite time; a vast intellectual or moral depth
Abyssnoun
the center of an escutcheon
Etymology: [L. abyssus a bottomless gulf, fr. Gr. bottomless; 'a priv. + depth, bottom.]
Wikidata
Abyss
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the Abyss, or more fully, the Infinite Layers of the Abyss, is a chaotic evil-aligned plane of existence. It is one of a number of alignment-based Outer Planes that form part of the standard Dungeons & Dragons cosmology, used in the Planescape and Greyhawk campaign settings. The Abyss is also the name of one of the faith-based outer planes that form part of the Forgotten Realms cosmology. While the published 3rd-Edition source books indicate that the Abyss of the standard D&D cosmology is not the same plane as the Abyss of the Forgotten Realms cosmology, they are for all practical purposes identical.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Abyss
a-bis′, n. a bottomless gulf: a deep mass of water.—adj. Abyss′al. [Gr. abyssos, bottomless—a, without, byssos, bottom.]
The Roycroft Dictionary
abyss
1. The measureless gulf between literature and the American magazine. 2. The distance between a thinker and an editorial writer.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
abyss
A deep mass of waters; in hydrography it was synonymous with gulf.
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Anagrams for abyss »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of abyss in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of abyss in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of abyss in a Sentence
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
there has never been a moment in one's life when one might not have stumbled upon this strange reality: what am I doing, where am I so hurriedly running, what is my objective, this whole world is a rat race and I'm going no where, with out any goal, isn't it?. this thought comes to me very often. alas! what to do, don't know what and where to knock the door and experience reality. no sooner that I try, I'm again fallen into the dismal depths of abyss, into the worldly affairs”
Very often you send papers home and they disappear into the abyss of someone's backpack, never to be seen again.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov:
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
The most likely outcome, with a 75 percent probability, is a deal, an unfortunate but predictable feature of European crisis decision-making is that such deals are only ever made at the last minute, 'at the edge of the abyss'.
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- هاويةArabic
- упҡынBashkir
- бездна, пропастBulgarian
- abismeCatalan, Valencian
- propastCzech
- afgrundDanish
- AbgrundGerman
- τάρταρα, άβυσσος, χάοςGreek
- abismoEsperanto
- sima, abismoSpanish
- پرتگاهPersian
- rappio, horna, syöveri, kauheus, sydänkohta, kurimus, kuiluFinnish
- gouffre, abîme, abysse, précipiceFrench
- ôfgrûnWestern Frisian
- aibhéisIrish
- रसातलHindi
- szakadékHungarian
- abysso, abysmoInterlingua
- nerakaIndonesian
- mgbùlùgùdùIgbo
- abissoItalian
- תהוםHebrew
- 深淵Japanese
- უფსკრულიGeorgian
- 심연Korean
- vorāgōLatin
- tōrere, poka tōrere, tomoauMāori
- kloof, ravijn, afgrondDutch
- avgrunnNorwegian
- doo nihonítʼį́ʼgóó ahoodzą́Navajo, Navaho
- przepaść, otchłańPolish
- abismoPortuguese
- adâncime, adânc, abis, hău, prăpastieRomanian
- про́пасть, бе́здна, безднаRussian
- bezdanSerbo-Croatian
- breznoSlovene
- djup, avgrundSwedish
- பாதாளம்Tamil
- תּהוםYiddish
- 深渊Chinese
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